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Town Clerk's Office
West Hartford Town Hall
50 South Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107
(860) 561-7430, Fax: (860) 561-7438
(see below for new office hours)

The Town Clerk's Office is responsible for maintaining land records, vital statistics, and all other official records relating to the Town and its citizens. It also issues a variety of licenses, certificates, permits and the like.

The Town Clerk's Office provides for annual license issuance and renewal of over 3,000 residents' dogs. Trade name certificates for new businesses, liquor licenses, and voter I.D. cards are issued on a continual basis throughout the year. More than 50 veterans submit their discharge papers for tax exemptions and safekeeping annually. Close to 1,000 notaries (who are West Hartford residents) post their notary status with the Town Clerk's Office, and over 500 documents are notarized every year by office staff.

An average of 1,000 game licenses are sold through the office each year. As part of this program, staff verifies and sorts over 3,000 licenses received from the State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), compiles and completes monthly licenses at the end of the year.

New office hours as of July 7, 2008:

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Absentee Ballots
Birth Certificates
Death Certificates
Dog Licenses
Fish and Game Licenses
Marriage Licenses & Civil Unions
Land Records
Land Use Registry Form, Public Act 06-80
Notary Public
Ordinances
Town Council
Trade Names
Veteran's Papers
Voter Registration Cards
Permits, Licenses & Ordinances

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